Newscast for Feb 19th 2009

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Please join us for the next Java Posse Roundup - March 3rd to 6th 2009 in Crested Butte, CO, with a free alternative languages on the JVM day on March 2nd.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

• Registration now open for JavaOne 2009, to be held June 2nd to 5th 2009 in the Moscone Center, SF
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/index.jsp?cid=J9JE1A
• http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/why_your_javaone_submission_was

• JavaFX 1.1 is now out, including official support for JavaFX Mobile
• http://javafx.com/downloads/all.jsp
• http://javafx.com/launch/index-mac.jsp
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/2009/02/javafx_11_relea.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/2009/02/javafx_mobile_1.html

• Details are beginning to emerge about a second generation Android phone
  
• http://www.yopool.com/google-dream-g2-phone-sciphone-android-dream-g2-p-3846.html
• http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/0,39029453,49301115,00.htm
• http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012158o-2000331761b,00.htm
• http://i.gizmodo.com/5154984/android-g2-hands-on-close-to-perfection

• Java project of the week - SAVE
  
• http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/02/11/Automatic_car_crash_call_system_created/UPI-88011234379095/

• Applet of the Week (kinda): Pet catalog browser
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/archive/2009/02/javafx_restful.html

Quick News

• Jazoon is running a competition for young speakers (26 or under) to present at Jazoon 09
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cwfrei/archive/2009/02/jazoon_rookie_c.html

• JetBrains has release IntelliJ IDEA 8.1
  
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/newfeatures.html
• http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/index.jsp#upgradeuser

• Apple has released a new update for Java on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
• http://zollotech.com/content/apple-releases-security-update-java-update

• Moonlight 1.0 has been officially released
  
• http://lifehacker.com/5152266/moonlight-10-gives-linux-users-silverlight-10-compatability
• http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/

• Zero, a project to make a JVM that requires no assembly code porting, has reached a major milestone, it has passed the TCK
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2009-February/004709.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/02/another_believe.html

• The WebDAV project has announced support for JAX-RS, final version 1.0
• https://webdav.dev.java.net/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mkarg/archive/2009/02/release_10_of_w_1.html

• Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced that there have been 100 million downloads of the JavaFX runtime already
• http://www.atomicsub.net/2009/02/sun-ceo-praises-javafx-platform/

• NetBeans portal pack 3.0 is now available for download
• http://portalpack.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1342

• OpenWebBeans 1.0.0 M1 has been released
• http://incubator.apache.org/openwebbeans/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/index.html

• And staying with JSR 299 - it has been approved for inclusion in Java EE 6 despite a few lingering concerns
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/02/perfectionist.html
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=4748
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsr_299_nee_webbeans_public

• JSR 303 - Bean Validation, led by Emmanuel Bernard of JBoss/RedHat (and not Sun as we have reported in the past) has also been accepted
  
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=303

• A FOSDEM 09 interview with Martin Odersky gives details about new language features coming in Scala 2.8
• http://fosdem.org/2009/interview/martin+odersky

• Kirill Grouchnikov has release version 4.0 final of Flamingo
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/02/substance_51_of.html
• https://flamingo.dev.java.net/
  

• Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 - codenamed Lenny - has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53658

• Groovy and Grails training courses offered by Scott David and Andrew Glover
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2009/02/learn_about_gro.html

• The reference implementation for Distributed OSGi, now officially known as OSGi 4.2, is now available at Apache CXF
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=53569
• http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/

• Scala and mixing it in with some Java code
• http://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/interop-between-java-and-scala

• The 7th annual Duke's Choice awards are accepting nominations
• http://java.sun.com/community/dukeawards/dukesChoice_form_new.html